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Source: © 123rf Nivea has launched Nivea Connect, a global social mission to combat social isolation and promote meaningful connections

Nivea Connect combats growing social isolation, promotes meaningful connections

(Image supplied) Virgin Active's global Leave the cult, Join the club campaign has premiered this September

Virgin Active’s new campaign Leave the cult, Join the club cuts through wellness fiction

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Why over 350 organisations share their news via a Biz Press Office

Why over 350 organisations share their news via a Biz Press Office

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Biz Most Read Award winners November 2022

Biz Most Read Award winners November 2022

Bizcommunity.com 1 Dec 2022

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AstraZeneca and partners act for equitable cancer care across Africa

14 Nov 2022

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Prudential appoints new chief executive officer for Africa

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PMI event sponsorship "tantamount to tobacco advertising" - civil society orgs

PMI event sponsorship "tantamount to tobacco advertising" - civil society orgs

7 Nov 2022

Biz Most Read Award winners October 2022

Biz Most Read Award winners October 2022

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What exactly is the mental health index for adolescents in French-speaking Africa?

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Air pollution second leading risk factor for death across Africa - report

Air pollution second leading risk factor for death across Africa - report

28 Oct 2022

Source: Supplied. Quro's Sister Vuyelwa is seen here with patient 'Ramasela' who received a knee replacement and hospital-at-home care thanks to Quro's new social-development partnership with Operation Healing Hands.

Quro Medical joins forces with Operation Healing Hands to bring public-sector relief

27 Oct 2022

The challenges and possibilities inherent in turning Africa into a research and development hub

Dr Tadesse T Mekonen 17 Oct 2022

Gambia police link child deaths to cough syrup imported by US firm

Sofia Christensen 12 Oct 2022

Exeo Capital acquires Vital Health Foods

10 Oct 2022

ePharmacy users to reach 1bn globally by 2027

10 Oct 2022

Source: Reuters. Packages of Bio Farma's Covid-19 vaccine are seen at Command Center and Vaccine Distribution Management System of Bio Farma in Bandung, West Java province, Indonesia.

Indonesia in talks with African countries to export its homemade Covid shot

10 Oct 2022

Source: AfricaCDC.

US to apply Ebola screenings for recent Uganda visitors at 5 airports

David Shepardson 7 Oct 2022

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Putting sustainability at the core of Africa's health

Jabulile Nhlapo 5 Oct 2022

Biz Most Read Award winners September 2022

Biz Most Read Award winners September 2022

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Source: Reuters. An artist paints a mural as part of the "cholera" campaign to depict the suffering of cholera patients in Sanaa, Yemen; April 25, 2019.

Cholera outbreaks surging worldwide, fatality rates rising - WHO

Jennifer Rigby 3 Oct 2022

Source: Reuters. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni attends a news conference.

Ebola kills doctor in Uganda, first health worker killed in latest outbreak

Elias Biryabarema 3 Oct 2022

Image supplied: Patrick Aryee is presenting Evolve

Patrick Aryee sets out to discover our world through biomimicry

Emily Stander 29 Sep 2022

Source: Reuters. Ugandan health workers speak to members of the community before carrying out the first vaccination exercise against the ebola virus in Kirembo village.

Uganda says Ebola caseload rises to 16 as outbreak grows

Elias Biryabarema 27 Sep 2022

Anglo American commits $15m to Global Fund's Seventh Replenishment

Anglo American commits $15m to Global Fund's Seventh Replenishment

22 Sep 2022

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Child infected with Marburg virus dies in Ghana

Wendell Roelf 20 Sep 2022

Ghana declares end of Marburg virus disease outbreak

Sofia Christensen 19 Sep 2022

Source: Supplied. African scientists receiving training in genomics surveillance at the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), South Africa.

Covid-19 variants in Africa were introduced from abroad, study finds

16 Sep 2022

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Bizcommunity.com 15 Sep 2022

Source: Supplied. Dr Allan Pamba, the Africa network lead of the EMEA-LATAM countries at Roche Diagnostics.

Co-designing the future of African healthcare

Dr Allan Pamba 8 Sep 2022

5 young African leaders shortlisted for Äänit Prize

5 young African leaders shortlisted for Äänit Prize

8 Sep 2022

August 2022 marks 21 years of Bizcommunity!

August 2022 marks 21 years of Bizcommunity!

Bizcommunity.com 29 Aug 2022

Source: Reuters/Mike Hutchings

SA's top insurers raided on suspicion of price fixing, collusion

Promit Mukherjee 25 Aug 2022

Source: Reuters.

Biden signs historic inflation act

Nandita Bose and Steve Holland 19 Aug 2022

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AstraZeneca and partners act for equitable cancer care across Africa

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Prudential appoints new chief executive officer for Africa

9 Nov 2022

PMI event sponsorship "tantamount to tobacco advertising" - civil society orgs

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What exactly is the mental health index for adolescents in French-speaking Africa?

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Air pollution second leading risk factor for death across Africa - report

Air pollution second leading risk factor for death across Africa - report

28 Oct 2022

Source: Supplied. Quro's Sister Vuyelwa is seen here with patient 'Ramasela' who received a knee replacement and hospital-at-home care thanks to Quro's new social-development partnership with Operation Healing Hands.

Quro Medical joins forces with Operation Healing Hands to bring public-sector relief

27 Oct 2022

The challenges and possibilities inherent in turning Africa into a research and development hub

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Gambia police link child deaths to cough syrup imported by US firm

Sofia Christensen 12 Oct 2022

Exeo Capital acquires Vital Health Foods

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ePharmacy users to reach 1bn globally by 2027

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Source: Reuters. Packages of Bio Farma's Covid-19 vaccine are seen at Command Center and Vaccine Distribution Management System of Bio Farma in Bandung, West Java province, Indonesia.

Indonesia in talks with African countries to export its homemade Covid shot

10 Oct 2022

Source: AfricaCDC.

US to apply Ebola screenings for recent Uganda visitors at 5 airports

David Shepardson 7 Oct 2022

Source: Supplied. Jabulile Nhlapo.

Putting sustainability at the core of Africa's health

Jabulile Nhlapo 5 Oct 2022

Biz Most Read Award winners September 2022

Biz Most Read Award winners September 2022

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Source: Reuters. An artist paints a mural as part of the "cholera" campaign to depict the suffering of cholera patients in Sanaa, Yemen; April 25, 2019.

Cholera outbreaks surging worldwide, fatality rates rising - WHO

Jennifer Rigby 3 Oct 2022

Source: Reuters. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni attends a news conference.

Ebola kills doctor in Uganda, first health worker killed in latest outbreak

Elias Biryabarema 3 Oct 2022

Image supplied: Patrick Aryee is presenting Evolve

Patrick Aryee sets out to discover our world through biomimicry

Emily Stander 29 Sep 2022

Source: Reuters. Ugandan health workers speak to members of the community before carrying out the first vaccination exercise against the ebola virus in Kirembo village.

Uganda says Ebola caseload rises to 16 as outbreak grows

Elias Biryabarema 27 Sep 2022

Anglo American commits $15m to Global Fund's Seventh Replenishment

Anglo American commits $15m to Global Fund's Seventh Replenishment

22 Sep 2022

Source: public health image library/CDC (public domain).

Child infected with Marburg virus dies in Ghana

Wendell Roelf 20 Sep 2022

Ghana declares end of Marburg virus disease outbreak

Sofia Christensen 19 Sep 2022

Source: Supplied. African scientists receiving training in genomics surveillance at the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), South Africa.

Covid-19 variants in Africa were introduced from abroad, study finds

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Source: Supplied. Dr Allan Pamba, the Africa network lead of the EMEA-LATAM countries at Roche Diagnostics.

Co-designing the future of African healthcare

Dr Allan Pamba 8 Sep 2022

5 young African leaders shortlisted for Äänit Prize

5 young African leaders shortlisted for Äänit Prize

8 Sep 2022

August 2022 marks 21 years of Bizcommunity!

August 2022 marks 21 years of Bizcommunity!

Bizcommunity.com 29 Aug 2022

Source: Reuters/Mike Hutchings

SA's top insurers raided on suspicion of price fixing, collusion

Promit Mukherjee 25 Aug 2022

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Biden signs historic inflation act

Nandita Bose and Steve Holland 19 Aug 2022

Ralmed doctors and hospitals the heart of South African medical healthcare

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Johnson & Johnson to stop sale of talcum baby powder globally

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15 Aug 2022

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Sierra Leone doctors strike over pay, fuel allowances

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Biz Most Read Award winners July 2022

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Source: Reuters. A nurse administers the malaria vaccine to an infant at the Lumumba sub-county hospital in Kisumu, Kenya.

Vaccine group invites African states to apply for malaria shot support

Jennifer Rigby and Mark Heinrich 21 Jul 2022

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Africa CDC says it has signed MOU with Pfizer for Covid pill

Anait Miridzhanian, James Macharia Chege and Estelle Shirbon 12 Jul 2022

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African Development Bank extends €121m food-production loan to Senegal to cushion impacts of war in Ukraine

11 Jul 2022

An Ebola survivor who works as a nurse, waits to receive tubes for taking blood samples at the Ebola treatment centre in Katwa, near Butembo, in the DRC, 3 October 2019. Reuters/Zohra Bensemra

DRC declares end to Ebola outbreak

Nellie Peyton 4 Jul 2022

Biz Most Read Award winners June 2022

Biz Most Read Award winners June 2022

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Africa officials urge readiness for monkeypox vaccinations, fair access

30 Jun 2022

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